Case Report
Year: 2020 | Month: August | Volume: 10 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 124-127
Eagle’s Syndrome: Case Report and Review of Literature: An Eagle’s Eye for Eagle Syndrome Diagnosis
Pallavi Saxena
Senior Resident, Department of Dentistry, Sardar Patel Medical College and Associated Hospitals Bikaner, India
ABSTRACT
Eagle’s syndrome is an anomaly affecting the styloid process where it is elongated due to ossification process. The most common etiology behind this pathology is trauma, but there are many theories that have been postulated to explain its pathogenesis. The treatment of choice is always surgery but in cases where the discomfort is not much the management strategy should be non surgical with the use of anticonvulsants, analgesics and oral steroids. Therefore, we present a case report where the patient was treated with the above non-surgical protocol. A 20 year old female patient presented to the OPD of our department with a chief complaint of pain in mouth and throat and feeling of foreign body sensation in the pharynx while swallowing. During the radiological evaluation, it was found that she had an elongated styloid process on the right side. It measured about 4.5 cm. Since the discomfort was not much and the elongation of the styloid was not much the treatment of choice was non surgical. In conclusion, Eagle’s syndrome has been studied very extensively by otolaryngologists, but since the presenting symptoms also involve the oral cavity therefore, a set of differential diagnosis may involve the oral cavity and hence, diagnosed and treated by the oral physician.
Key words: Eagle’s syndrome, Elongated styloid process, Neck pain